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...sleek pony stretched his neck, drew back his body, shook at the withers, coughed. Soon many another pony was coughing. There was consternation in the Long Island stables wherein were quartered the ponies, for the cough-claque lessened the chances of victory for the Argentine polo team, ready to battle a U. S. four for the championship of the Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fours | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...tall hill on which perches the citadel of Prague sped the sleek limousine of Lewis Einstein. When Commoner William Jennings Bryan was U.S. Secretary of State, he once called Mr. Einstein an "invaluable adjunct" to that Department. Lion Hunter Theodore Roosevelt declared in 1918, "Mr. Lewis Einstein . . . foresaw the War. He foresaw our entry into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Einstein Demands | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Last week the sleek limousine of Lewis Einstein, rich and smart "career diplomat," and U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, was accorded every mark of respect as it wheeled into the courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry. Alighting briskly suave Mr. Einstein stepped within and soon deposited a formal demand from the U.S. State Department that the annual quota set upon U. S. motor cars imported into Czechoslovakia shall be raised this year by a cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Einstein Demands | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...broken-down horse attracted the attention of Winifred, Duchess of Portland, in London some months ago. Touched by the creature's piteous air, Her Grace bought it on the spot. Last fortnight she displayed it to her royal house guests, who beheld a nag still old, but now sleek and roly-poly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Best Butter | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Dramatic in the life of Bambi is his first passionate fight, antler-locked with a rival buck, for Faline, sleek and lovely mate. Dramatic is the first fleeting encounter with his father, aristocrat of animals. And not till he has proved himself worthy of his father's company does the old stag lead Bambi to a solitary haunt, and teach him the necessity of aloneness. He shows him a poacher lying foolishly shot to the ground, forces Bambi to realize that man is not all-powerful, as fawns and silly does suppose, but that there must be a higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Animal Logic | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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